Gasoline prices have plunged. So why is no one cheering?

Gasoline prices have fallen $1 in a month and more than $2 since the all-time high in June. Motorists are collectively saving billions at the pump, cash that would have generated fresh legs for the economy in better times. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Nov. 19, 2008

Straight forward, informative reporting. The story uses a variety of persons-on-the-street interviews to make its point that there is no joy in Mudvill because eveyone sees lowered gas prices as giving them a small extra sum of cash for budgets that are increasingly strained as things continue to worsen.

In parts of Colorado, regular is selling for about $1.65 a gallon. That means it's time gas up the old Suburban--a fillup which cost $170 when gas was going for $4.25 a gallon and now costs $68 at current prices. What's interesting is that we've become so accustomed to gas at outrageous prices that $1.65 seems a bargain.

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